[gdal-dev] Projection issue with a netcdf file

[Christopher Barker]

Kyle Shannon wrote:
> I am downloading a netcdf file from a thredds data server.  It contains 
> 4 grib datasets of weather data.  When I run gdalinfo on one of these 
> subdatasets, the standard parallels in the netCDF metadata (marked by 
> astrisks) differs from the standard parallels in the reported Coordinate 
> system:

> I am curious where this discrepancy is taking place.  I kind of think it 
> is a typo or a mistake from the data server, but I can't peg it down.  
> Any thoughts?

have you run ncdump on the netcdf file? That should tell you what's int 
eh file, so you can determine if the thredds server is doing the right 
thing:

ncdump -h name_of_file.nc

(the -h) means you only want the header info -- not all the data.

-Chris



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